Men's Tennis drops consecutive 4-3 decisions to Liberty and UTPA

Men's Tennis | 3/7/2015 8:47:00 PM

ABILENE - Abilene Christian men's tennis suffered back-to-back 4-3 losses to non-conference opposition from Liberty and UT-Pan American on a cool Saturday afternoon at the Eager Tennis Pavilion.

The two losses dropped the Wildcats' season record to 4-11, with four of those losses coming by one point. Liberty, meanwhile, improved to 6-4, and UTPA snapped a four-match losing streak in moving up to 3-6.

ACU won and lost one doubles point, and had five of its 12 singles matches decided in a third set. 

Sophomore Nico Agritelley and junior Marco Bensley were the Wildcats' lone double winners today on the singles court. Agritelley improved to 10-5 on the spring after upending Liberty's Sam Matheson 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, and UTPA's Hector Ramirez, 6-2, 7-6, at No. 2.

Bensley pushed his individual winning streak to three games with wins at No. 6 over the Flames' Jason Burgess, 6-4, 7-5, and Bronco Ethan Ammon, 6-3, 6-2.

Freshman Paul Domanski won the only other ACU singles match today, beating Liberty's Diego Castano at No. 5, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.

ACU lost its No. 1 and 3 doubles contests to Liberty and split the remaining singles matches with three remarkably close defeats. No. 1 senior Guilherme Gesser lost in three to Dillon Segur after being up a set, 6-7, 6-1, 6-4, while at No. 4, Jorge Azuero rallied to beat freshman Henry Adams, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. In between, junior Jason Proctor was edged at No. 3 by Egon Samaai, 7-6, 7-6.

The Wildcats opened the UTPA match with two doubles victories as Gesser and Agritelley rolled Koby Jansen and Hector Ramirez, 6-2, at No. 1, and Proctor and Adams tripped up Juan Cruz Soria and Nikola Crvelin, 7-5, at No. 2.

The Broncs, however, were to quick to respond in singles as Cruz Soria tied the score at 1-1 with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Gesser at the No. 1 position.
 
After the Wildcats picked up victories on court six and two, UTPA's Alvarez-Hevia bounced back from a set down with 6-2 victories in the second and third sets for a second point.
 
Jansen tied the match once more at 3-3 with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 victory over Jason Proctor at No. 3 singles and then Crvelin clinched it for the Broncs at No. 5 singles over Domanski, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.

The Wildcats return to action during the week of Spring Break with duals in Kansas City, Mo. vs. Northwest Missouri State, Nebraska-Omaha and UMKC.
 

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Liberty 4, Abilene Christian 3
Mar 07, 2015 at Abilene, Texas (Eager Tennis Pavilion) 

Singles competition
1. SEGUR, Dillon (LIBERTY) def. Guilherme Gesser (ACU) 6-7, 6-1, 6-4
2. Nico Agritelley (ACU) def. MATHESON, Sam (LIBERTY) 6-4, 6-7, 6-3
3. SAMAAI, Egon (LIBERTY) def. Jason Proctor (ACU) 7-6, 7-6
4. AZUERO, Jorge (LIBERTY) def. Henry Adams (ACU) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
5. Paul Domanski (ACU) def. CASTANO, Diego (LIBERTY) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
6. Marco Bensley (ACU) def. BURGESS, Jason (LIBERTY) 6-4, 7-5

Doubles competition
1. SEGUR, Dillon/CASTANO, Diego (LIBERTY) def. Guilherme Gesser/Nico Agritelley (ACU) 6-3
2. Henry Adams/Jason Proctor (ACU) vs. MATHESON, Sam/AZUERO, Jorge (LIBERTY) unfinished
3. SAMAAI, Egon/BUSH, David (LIBERTY) def. Paul Domanski/Marco Bensley (ACU) 6-2

Match Notes
Liberty 6-4
Abilene Christian 4-10


UT-Pan American 4, Abilene Christian 3
Mar 07, 2015 at Abilene, Texas (Teague Events Center) 

Singles competition
1. J. Cruz Soria (UTPA) def. Guilherme Gesser (ACU) 6-2, 6-1
2. Nico Agritelley (ACU) def. Hector Ramirez (UTPA) 6-2, 7-6
3. Koby Jansen (UTPA) def. Jason Proctor (ACU) 7-6, 6-1
4. M. Alvarez-Hevia (UTPA) def. Henry Adams (ACU) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
5. Nikola Crvelin (UTPA) def. Paul Domanski (ACU) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
6. Marco Bensley (ACU) def. Ethan Ammon (UTPA) 6-3, 6-2

Doubles competition
1. Guilherme Gesser/Nico Agritelley (ACU) def. Koby Jansen/Hector Ramirez (UTPA) 6-2
2. Jason Proctor/Henry Adams (ACU) def. J. Cruz Soria/Nikola Crvelin (UTPA) 7-5
3. Paul Domanski/Marco Bensley (ACU) vs. M. Alvarez-Hevia/Ethan Ammon (UTPA) unfinished

Match Notes
UT-Pan American 3-6
Abilene Christian 4-11